Visual Culture - Colour and Spacial as Method and Meaning Lecture

Colour and Spacial as Method and Meaning

Colour and Space interlinked

Spacial theory - study of space and place

"Space and Place"

Places are generic

Social constructs

"Spatial turn" - not viewed as static

Colours can have, culture, science, psychology, physiology

Colour alters perception

Colour theory is in infancy

Computers - view 16 million colours

Humans - view 10 million colours

11 basic colour terms in English language

11 colour terms in the 98 languages

Theorists:

Aristotle - De Colouribus

Leon Battista Alberti - Della Pittura

Sir Issac Newton - The Colour Spectrum and treatise Optiks

Goethe - Theory Of Colours

Johannes Itan - The Elements of Colour and The Art Of Colour

Aristotle

White and Black 

Light and Absence

Colours are derived from one of four elements: fire, air, earth and water

Leon Battista Alberti

Red - fire

Blue - air

Green - air

Grey - earth

Black and White are not colours 

Sir Issac Newton

Colour Spectrum

Conducted Prism experiments

7 segments: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

Other Theorists

Three main colours - Red, Blue and Yellow

End of 19th century - R,G,B - Red, Green, Blue

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black - CMYK

Modern Chromatics - 1879

Johannes Itan 

Strategies of successful colour combinations

Contrast of Saturation, Light and Dark, Extension, Compliments, Simulation, Contract, Hie, Warm and Cool

Primary Colours - Red, Blue, Yellow

Secondary - Orange, Purple, Green

Tertiary - Primary + Secondary or Secondary + Secondary

Colour System - additive, subtractive

Additive synthesis - mixing of colours of light

Red Light, Green Light, Blue Light

Subtractive Synthesis - mixing colours of pigments 

Blocking part of spectrum 

Shade

Tone

Tint

Hue

Lightness

Saturation

Value

Aggressive - Yellow, Orange, Red

Passive - Green, Blue, Violet

Y + B = G

R + Y = O

R + B = V

M = C = P

Colour Wheel - 3 primary, 3 secondary, 6 territory 

Some show inbetween colours

Colours set near and opposite each other 

Green:

Appachi = South, Japan = Life, Eastern = Eternity 

Black - Powerful, Mysterious

White - Purity

Red - Energy

Pink - Romantic

Orange - Cheerful

Green - Calming

Blue - Trustworthy

Yellow - Optimism 

Purple - Wealth

Film:

Red, Yellow, Orange - wake up

Blue, Green - Calming 

Silver - Richness

Gold - Prosperity 

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